freebsd

I’ve had quite a few friends and colleagues run into a problem trying to create a volume on FreeNAS. This applies to FreeNAS 9, as well as older versions such as 8. The error they get when clicking “Add Volume” is this:

“You must specify a new volume name or select an existing ZFS volume to append a virtual device.”

and under that:

“The volume name must start with letters and may include numbers, “-“, “_” and “.” “